The object of this Letter is no longer to argue against a scheme which is
universally condemned. The independence of Ireland is what he insists on:
and the duty of her leading men is to assert that independence. In this he
assumed a freedom of spirit which did not really exist. The sketch was
skilfully drawn, so as to prepare men for a new appeal, and was far from
being the last word. Two months after the fourth and greatest Letter
appeared.